Schedule of Talks

 

335 West Hall

11-28 May, 2004

 

“Dark Side of the Universe”

 

 
Tuesday, May 11

10:00 AM       Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah)

                        “A Dark Matter Stream through the Solar Neighborhood”

 

11:00 AM       Levon Pogosian (Tufts University)

                        “Forecasting Cosmic Doomsday from CMB/LSS Cross-Correlations”

Wednesday, May 12

10:00 AM       Will Kinney (Buffalo)

                        “A Model for Dark Energy with Long Range Forces”

 

11:00 AM       Katherine Freese (University of Michigan)

“Explaining the Suppressed Power on Large Scales in the CMB with New Physics (Randall-Sundrum)”

Thursday, May 13

10:00 AM       Grant Matthews (Notre Dame)

                        “Dark Radiation & Dark Matter: A View into the Fifth Dimension”

 

Friday, May 14

10:00 AM       Peter Garnavich (Notre Dame)

                        “Dark Energy from Supernova Searches: Present and Future”

           

11:00AM        Arlin Crotts (Columbia University)

                        “TBA”

Tuesday, May 18

10:00 AM       Emil Mottola (Los Alamos)

                        “TBA”

 

11:00 AM       Pia Mukherjee (University of Oklahoma)

                        “(Non-) Gaussianity in the WMAP Data”

Wednesday, May 19

10:00 AM       Anne Green (University of Sheffield)

                        “Theoretical Aspects of Dark Matter Detection”

 

10:45 AM       Gordon Kane (University of Michigan)

                        “An Approach to the Cosmological Constant Problem(s)”

 

11:30 AM       Rich Holman (Carnegie-Melon)

                        “Spinodal Instatbilities and Dark Energy”

 

Thursday, May 20

10:00 AM       Leonard Parker (Wisconsin)

“Dark Energy as a Quantum Vacuum Effect with Zero Cosmological Constant”

           

10:45 AM       Martin Bucher (DAMTP)

“Understanding the Brane-Bulk Interaction”

 

11:30 AM       Mark Trodden (Syracuse)

                        “Crazy Ideas about Dark Energy”

Friday, May 21

10:00 AM       Eduardo Guendelman (University of Negev)

                        “New Physics at Low Densities, Dark Energy, and Dark Matter”

           

10:45 AM       Ue-Li Pen (CITA)

                        “Primeval Structure Telescope: Window to High Redshifts”

 

11:30 AM       Laura Mersini (UNC-Chapel Hill)

“Observational Evidence for String Theory?”

 

Wednesday, May 26

10:00 AM       Eric Linder (Berkeley Lab)

                        “Complementary Probes of Dark Energy”

 

10:45 AM       Dragan Huterer (Case Western Reserve University)

                        “Uncorrelated Estimates of Dark Energy Evolution”

 

11:30 AM       Patrick Greene (Columbia)

Everpresent Lambda: Quantum Cosmology Confronts “Why Now?”

Thursday, May 27

10:00 AM       Jan Pieter Van der Schaar (CERN)

“Inflation as a Probe of String Scale Physics”

 

10:45 AM       Anupam Mazumdar (CHEP; McGill University)

                        “Legacy of Dark Energy”

 

11:30 AM       Gianfranco Bertone (NASA/Fermilab)

                        “Dark Matter and Galactiz Center”

Friday, May 28

10:00 AM       Pier-Stefano Corasaniti (Columbia)

                        “Probing the Dark Energy with CMB, SN and Sigma_8”

 

10:45 AM       David Graff (American Museum of Natural history)

                        “TBA”

 

11:30 AM       Emil Mottola (Los Alamos)

                        “Conformal Invariance, an Infrared Fixed Point for Gravity and the CMB”

 

The Dark Side of the Universe concludes